This is the Forward’s coverage of vandalism, including antisemitic attacks against Jews.
Vandalism
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Fast Forward Swiss Kosher Butcher Shop Vandalized 4 Times In One Month
(JTA) — A kosher butcher shop in Basel, Switzerland has been vandalized four times in one month in what local Jews are condemning as an anti-Semitic campaign of intimidation. In one of the attacks, the unidentified perpetrators removed the letter J from the German-language word for Jewish from a metal sign over the shop, as…
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Fast Forward California Man Charged With Setting Fire, Drawing Devil Outside Synagogue
A California man faces charges of vandalism and arson after setting a small fire outside a local congregation and drawing a devil on its walkway, the Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday. Police were alerted of a person, later identified as Brett Allen Bisnett, loitering around Congregation Beth Shalom in Modesto on Monday evening. Bisnett, who told…
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Fast Forward Virginia JCC Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti For Second Time In 18 Months
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia was vandalized with 19 spray-painted swastikas early Saturday morning. JCC employees discovered the vandalism when they were opening up the building that day. Security footage captured a suspect spray-painting the swastikas at around 4:30 a.m. Police are working to identify the culprit. The JCC was also hit with…
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Fast Forward Manhattan Sukkah Vandalized With ‘Free Gaza’ Graffiti
A sukkah in New York City’s Upper East Side was defaced with the words “Free Gaza,” WABC reported Monday. The anti-Israel message was spray painted three times on the sukkah in Carl Schurz Park on Sunday morning. The hut, where meals are eaten to commemorate the holiday of Sukkot, was vandalized a day before Simchat…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Posted At 5 Bay Area Synagogues Just Before Rosh Hashanah
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic fliers were posted at or near five San Francisco-area synagogues ahead of Rosh Hashanah. The fliers, which included caricatures of Jews with big hooked noses rubbing their hands together, named the far-right website Daily Stormer, one of the internet’s most prominent anti-Semitic outlets. The Anti-Defamation League issued a community security advisory about the fliers…
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Fast Forward Headstones Pushed Over At New Jersey Jewish Cemetery
(JTA) — Four headstones were toppled at a Jewish cemetery in New Jersey. The toppled headstones were discovered on Sunday at the Congregation Agudath Achim Cemetery in Freehold Township in New Jersey. The headstones were pushed over sometime on Saturday or early Sunday morning, according to local reports. No other acts of vandalism were discovered…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorials In Estonia Torched, Vandalized With Swastika
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village in the Harju County near Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic nation of Estonia, the website News-Front reported Thursday. The monuments, erected at sites of mass killings of Jews…
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Fast Forward 2 Suspects In Custody Over Indiana Synagogue Vandalism
(JTA) — Police arrested two suspects in connection with the painting of a swastika on a synagogue in Indiana. U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler, the FBI and the Police Department of the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel announced on Thursday charges against 20-year-old Nolan Brewer and a co-conspirator who is in custody but was not named. The…
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